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The Ting Tings: Sounds from Nowheresville

February 25 2012, 12:01am, The Times

The Ting Tings: Jules De Martino and Katie WhiteTom Oxley

The Ting Tings Sounds from Nowheresville HHIII A four-year wait between a hit debut album and its follow-up generally means that an act has either developed excruciating levels of perfectionism or had a crisis of confidence. In the Ting Tings’ case you sense the latter. This Salford duo emerged in 2008 as an appealingly odd prospect: the singer, Katie White, had a girl-group background and a look similar to the young women who hand out free samples at railway stations; the drummer, Jules De Martino, had been in various indie bands who had gone nowhere. They made pop with its own clear voice: their No 1 hit, That’s Not My Name, is one of those songs that hits you instantly while not being like anything…